8.97 miles; Carrabelle, FL Wow, was I psyched when I found this trail. An almost 9-mile trail through many different kinds of habitat in a state forest? Sign me up. I had the impression this was a big trail until I Googled up a map of the state forest itself… Seems like a drop in […]

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5 miles; Port St. Joe, FL Today I decided to take a stroll along the beach to the “elbow” of Cape San Blas, then a slightly precarious beach walk through a lot of dead fall, and finish up with a rather boring return along a bike path. But it was right outside my door, so […]

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1.4 miles; Port St. Joe, FL I saw some information on this preserve on line and thought it might make an interesting little walk. I was rather disappointed, but the environment is still so different and intriguing that I can’t claim to be bored by it Two things in that write-up caught my eye about […]

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4.87 miles; Sumatra, FL My first actual hike in Florida, and in 2018, was in the Apalachicola National Forest. Kind of monotonous and very very flat. Compared to the weather in Southern Connecticut, it’s just nice to see green instead of snow! And there were lots and lots of wildflowers blooming. In January! Such a […]

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3.55 miles; West Greenwich, RI I guess I’m not quite done with 2017 after all. My friend Ann had never hiked Pratt and was itching to see it, so we did a car-spot, putting 1 car at Tillinghast and then starting from Saddle Rock Road. The day’s weather was a high of 24º and there […]

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And here’s the rest of the hikes I loved this past year [for Part 1, see here]… beginning with #5—Cockaponset Trail, Sections 1 & 2 Another idle evening of poking around on the CFPA’s interactive hiking map, another blue-blazed trail knocked off! This one was too tempting, because it was a) short, and 2) you […]